Irish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Irish badbda (“appertaining to war; Badb-like, deadly, fatal”), from Old Irish bodbdae.
Adjective
[edit]badhbha
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | badhbha | bhadhbha | badhbha; bhadhbha2 | |
| vocative | bhadhbha | badhbha | ||
| genitive | badhbha | badhbha | badhbha | |
| dative | badhbha; bhadhbha1 |
bhadhbha | badhbha; bhadhbha2 | |
| Comparative | níos badhbha | |||
| Superlative | is badhbha | |||
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “badhbha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “badbda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]badhbha f pl
- nominative/dative plural of badhbh (“hooded crow”)
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| badhbha | bhadhbha | mbadhbha |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.